At the Doha Climate Change Conference, the Conference of the Parties (COP) decided to establish, at COP19 (November 2013), institutional arrangements, such as an international mechanism to address loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

In order to obtain an overview of the landscape of existing institutional arrangements that address the full spectrum of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, the UNFCCC secretariat requested relevant information from a wide range of organizations and networks engaged in work related to reducing vulnerability to and building resilience against climate change.

The table below contains information provided by 46 organizations during the summer of 2013 in response to the request from the secretariat for inputs. These examples represent different ways in which organizations are currently responding to the increasingly challenging risks of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.